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the order was fupprefl'ed by pope Innocent X, in 1630, and 
their eftedts were confilcated. In the church of the mo. 
nailery of this order, at Genoa is preferved the image which 
it is pretended Chrift fent to king Abgartis. 
BARTOLOC’CI (Julius), a learned monk, and pro- 
felTor of Hebrew at Rome, was born at Celeno, in 1613 ; 
and didinguilhed himfelf by writing an excellent catalogue 
of the Hebrew writers and writings, in 4 vols. folio; a 
continuation of which was performed by.Imbonati his dif- 
ciple. He died in 1687. 
BARTOLOME'O (Francifco), a celebrated painter, 
born at Savignano, a village near Florence, in 1469, was 
the difciple of Cofimo Rolelli, but was much beholden to 
the works of Leonardo da Vinci for his extraordinary /kill 
in painting. He was w-ell verfed in the fundamentals of 
defign. Raphael, after quitting the fchool of Perugino, 
applied to this mailer; and under him liudied the rules of 
perfpedtive, with the art of managing and uniting colours. 
In the year 1300, he turned Dominican friar; and fome 
time after was lent by his fuperiors to the convent of St. 
Martin, in Florence. He painted in portrait and hi dory; 
but his fcrupulous confcience would hardly fuffer him to 
draw naked figures. He died in 1517, aged forty-eight. 
BAR'TON, or BER'TON,yi A word ufed in Devon¬ 
shire, for the demefne lands of a manor ; fometimes the 
manor-houfe itfelf; and in fome places for out-houfes and 
fold-yards. In the ftatute 2 and 3 Edw. VI. c. 12, barton 
lands, and demenfe lands, are ufed as fynonima. Blount 
fays it always fignified a farm didindl from a manfion, and 
lertonarii were farmers, hulbandmen that held bartons at 
the will of the lord. In the well, they called a great farm 
a burton or barton ; and a fmall farm a living. 
Barton (Elizabeth), commonly called The. Holy Maid 
ojKent, was a religious impollor in the reign of Hen. VIII. 
She was a fervant at Aldington, in Kent, and had long 
been troubled with convulfions, which diftorted her limbs 
and countenance in the dranged manner, and threw' her 
body in the moll violent agitations ; and the eftedt of the 
diforder was fuch, that after file recovered Hie could coun¬ 
terfeit the fame appearance. Mailers, the pried of Al¬ 
dington, with other ecclefiafiics, thinking her a proper in- 
drument for their purpofe, perfuaded her to pretend that 
what file laid and did was by a ftipernatural impulfe. With 
this view die would lie as it were in a trance for fome time; 
then, coming to herfelf, after many Itrange contortions, 
would break out into pious ejaculations, hymns, and pray¬ 
ers ; fometimes delivering herfelf in fpt ipeeches, fome¬ 
times in uncouth rhymes. She pretended to be honoured 
with vilions and revelations, to hear heavenly voices, and 
the mod ravifiiing melody. She declaimed againd the 
wickednefs of the. times, againll herefy and innovations ; 
exhorting the people to hear maffes, to ufe frequent con- 
fefiions, and to pray to our lady, and all the faints. This 
artful management, with great exterior piety, virtue, and 
aullcrity of.life, not only deceived the vulgar, but many 
learned perfons, fuch as Sir Thomas More, bilhop Filher, 
archbilhop Warkam ; the lad of whom appointed com- 
midioners to examine her. She was now inftrubled to fay, 
in her counterfeit trances, that the bleffed Virgin had ap¬ 
peared to her, and allured her that file fiiould never re¬ 
cover, till file went to vilit her image, in a chapel dedi¬ 
cated to her in the parilli of Aldington. Thither die re¬ 
paired in proeeffion, and in pilgrimage, as it were, attend¬ 
ed by above three thoufand people, and many perfons of 
quality of both fexes. On her arrival, (lie fell into one of 
her trances, and uttered many things in honour of the faints, 
and the papal religion : for herfelf (lie faid, that, by the 
infpiration of God, file was called to be a nun, and that 
Dr. Booking was to be her ghofily father. Dr. Bocking 
was a canon of Chrid-church, in Canterbury, and an af- 
fociate in carrying on the impodure. Meanw’hile, the 
archbilhop was fo fatisfied with the reports made to him 
about her, as to order her to be put into the nunnery of 
St. Sepulchre, Canterbury ; where (he pretended to have 
jkequent infpirations and vifions. The prieds, her nia- 
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nagers, having thus fucceeded in the hnpoflure, now pro¬ 
ceeded to the objedf of it; and Elizabeth Barton was. di- 
redted publicly to announce, how God had revealed to 
her, that “ in cafe the king fiiould divorce queen Cathe¬ 
rine of Arragon, and take another wife during her life, 
his life would not be of a month’s duration, but he fiiould 
die the death of a villain,” Bifiiop Fifner, and others, in 
the intered of the queen, hearing of this, held frequent 
meetings with the nun and her accomplices, and at the 
fame time feduced many perfons from their allegiance, 
particularly the fathers and nuns of Sion, the Charter- 
houfe, and Sheen, and fome of the obfervants at Rich¬ 
mond, Greenwich, and Canterbury. One Peto, preach* 
ing before the king at Greenwich, denounced heavy judg¬ 
ments againd him to his face ; telling him, that “ he ha^d 
been deceived by many lying prophets, while himfelf, as 
a true Micaiah, warned him, that the dogs fiiould lick his 
blood, as they had licked the blood of Ahab.” Henry 
bore this outrageous infult with a degree of moderation 
very remarkable for him : but, to undeceive the people, he 
appointed Dr. Curwin to preach before him the Sunday 
following, who judified the king’s proceedings, and brand¬ 
ed PetQ with the epithets of “rebel, Uanderer, dog, and 
traitor.” Curwin, however, was interrupted by a friar, 
and called “a lying prophet, who fought to edablifli the 
luccellion to the crown upon adultery ;” and he proceeded 
with fuch virulence, that the king was obliged to inter- 
pofe, and commanded him to be filent: yet, though Peto 
and the friar were afterwards fummoned before the coua- 
cil, they were only reprimanded for their infolence. En¬ 
couraged by this lenity of the government, the ecclefiaf. 
tics relolved to publifii the revelations of the nun, in their 
fernions, throughout the kingdom : they had communi¬ 
cated them to the pope’s ambalfadors, to whom alfo they 
introduced the maid of Kent; and they exhorted queen 
Catherine to perlift in her refolutions. At length this 
confederacy began to be fufpedted, and Henry ordered the 
maid and her accomplices to be examined in the liar-cham¬ 
ber. Here they confeffed all the particulars of the im- 
pollure, and afterwards appeared upon a fc a fib Id eredled 
at St. Paul’s Crofs, where the articles of their confefiion 
were publicly read in their hearing. Thence they were 
conveyed to the Tower, until the meeting of parliament; 
who, having confidered the affair, pronounced it a con- 
fpiracy againd the king’s life and crown. The nun, with 
her confederates, Bocking, Deering, Bilby, Makers, and 
Gould, were attainted of high treafon, and executed at 
Tyburn, April 20, 1534. Their heads were afterwards 
cut off, and placed in different parts of London; that of 
the Holy maid, Stowe fays, was let upon London-bridge. 
Barton (Henry), dodlor of divinity, and warden of 
Merton college, Oxford. Of this gentleman many piea- 
fant anecdotes are in the recolledlion of his friends: that 
he was no enemy to a pun, the following bears tedimony : 
In the year 1763, on the peace being proclaimed at Ox¬ 
ford, and the heads of the colleges being affembled, as is 
ufual, on a temporary building eredled for the purpofe,- 
Dr. Barton very gravely went up to the feveral heads of 
houfes that were met on the occalion, and faid, “ I don’t 
know' why the nation fiiould be fo well pleafed with the 
peace ; for my own part, I think it a very bad one.” “A 
bad one, dodlor ! why fiiould you think it a bad one?” 
“That certainly (faid the dodlor) is a bad peace which 
brings fo many heads to the fcaffold.” He died July 13, 
1793 - 
Barton (Matthew), admiral of the white. There 
are few perfons who, during the time that their age and 
drength would permit, have been more actively employed 
in the fervice of their country. Fie went to fea in 1730, 
in the Fox, captain Arnold, to South Carolina ; returned 
in Augud 1732, and was paid off. In the November fol¬ 
lowing he was made a midfliipman on-board the Falmouth, 
captain Byng, and went to Lilbon, and the Mediterranean; 
returned to England in May, 1735, and was turned over 
to the Cornwall, capt. Vanbrugh, and paid off in March, 
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